American Rust

TitleAmerican Rust
Year of Publication2021
Publication TypeTelevision Script
Number of Pages or Episodes9 episodes
LanguageEnglish
AuthorsFutterman, Dan
KeywordsBlack Americans; correction officers; drug overdoses; football; homosexuality; Korean Americans; labor unions; Latino/Latina/Latinx Americans; Mexican Americans; mill towns; NLRB; police; prisoners; sex workers; weddings
Abstract

A small screen adaptation of the 2009 novel set in Buell, Fayette County, a fictitious, depressed Rust Belt town. Police chief Del Harris (Jeff Daniels) courts Grace Poe (Maura Tierney), a divorced seamstress, while a murder investigation leads Harris to Poe's son, Billy (Alex Neustaedter).

Notes

Based on the novel by Philipp Meyer (1974— ).

Author Biography

Dan Futterman (1967- ), born in Silver Spring, Maryland and educated at Columbia University, is an actor, screenwriter, and producer.

Time

2020s

Published

unpublished